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Survey shows high internet usage among iPhone owners

Survey shows high internet usage among iPhone owners

Six months after Apple'siPhone was released, M:Metrics, a measurement firm that studies mobile media, has released a survey that shows that iPhone users access news and information more than other smartphone owners.

A January survey of more than 10,000 adults, show:- 84.8% of iPhone users accessed news and information on their phones compared to 13.1% of the overall mobile phone market and 58.2% of total smartphone owners, including Blackberries and devices that run Windows- 58.6% of iPhone users visited a search engine on their phone, compared to 37% of smartphone users in general and 6.1% of mobile phone users- 30.9% of iPhone users have tuned into mobile TV or a video clip from their phone, which is more than double the percentage that have watched on a smartphone

Mark Donovan, an analyst at M:Metrics, attributes AT&T and its unlimited iPhone data plan as a primary factor in the iPhone's success as a media platform.

"Apple really made a device that is Internet-centric and really fits the kind of digital lifestyle that a lot of people who are jacked into the Internet all the time are used to," he said. "They did a great job of crushing some of the sweet spots of mobile Internet usage."

The rise of Internet usage on mobile phones is another reason for news sites to go mobile.

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